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Welcome!

Through performances, recordings, and education, Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band strive to:

  • preserve and propagate traditional folk music
  • increase participation in the singing and playing of traditional folk music
  • enhance understanding of people, culture, and history throughout the world
Watch the video for an overview, and see about for more.

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What's New?

Concerts

Blogs

Videos

Wednesday, June 24
Broward County Main Library
(Ft. Lauderdale, FL)

Saturday, June 27
Miami-Dade Public Library System
(Key Biscayne, FL)

Celebrate with Song
5/19/2009
Memorial Day

Ramblings
5/11/2009
Honoring Pete Seeger

11/25/2008
Lonesome Valley
(Pete Seeger 90th Birthday Celebration - Ft. Lauderdale)

3/12/2009
Dixie's Land
(Main Street Theater)
See upcoming concerts for the complete schedule. See blog for more posts. See videos for all
available videos.

Free Song Downloads

Photo Albums

5/20/2009
The Vacant Chair
(in observance of Memorial Day)

11/25/2008
Old-Time Music Night

9/6/2008
Children's Programs
Subcscribe to Matthew's email list for access to this and other free MP3s, including tracks from the CDs
Ballad of America Volumes 1 and 2.		 See pictures for more photo albums.

New CD Celebrates Abraham Lincoln's 200th Birthday!
Songs in the Life of Abraham Lincoln (Ballad of America Volume 3)

This is the soundtrack to Abraham Lincoln's life.

Songs in the Life of Abraham Lincoln celebrates the 200th birthday of the 16th president of the United States through the music he cherished. Abraham Lincoln was a man of remarkable determination, compassion, honesty, humor, and melancholy. Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band's traditional acoustic arrangements of his favorite folk and popular songs enable 21st century listeners to better understand the man himself and the times in which he lived.

Extensive liner notes tell his story while highlighting his personal relationship to each song:

  • His mother's favorite Old World ballad
  • A minstrel song that amused him as a young man
  • A campaign song that helped him win the presidency
  • A slave spiritual that fueled his compassion
  • A Civil War song that was played on a piano in the White House by a general
  • Sentimental songs that appealed to his melancholy nature